Joseph Zitt wrote:
> Bill Schottstaedt wrote:
>
>> On Saturday 14 June 2003 02:50 am, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>> here's someone making music with a dot matrix printer:
>>
>>
>>
>> When I was about 10 (around 1960), the place my father worked
>> installed a barnful of IBM's; I got to tour the joint, and the
>> thing I remember best was when one of the operators played
>> a buzzy "Happy Birthday" on what I remember as a printer, though
>> maybe it was the paper tape reader.
>
>
> Back in 1982 or so, I did a piece in my office that employed about a
> dozen spacially separated line printers and beeping terminals. Due to
> lags in the computers and devices some very cool kinda minimalist
> phasings and staggerings happened.
>
> The good thing about working the midnight shift was that I was able to
> get away with such stunts. The bad thing was that no one else ever heard
> it.
>
wow. i wish i had....
>
>
--
|\ _,,,---,,_
ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ HTTP 503: Too Busy
|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'
'---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL
.::. www.iriXx.org .::. www.copyleftmedia.org.uk .::.
gnupg key ID: AEB7A31E
